Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

For about six weeks now, NASA has been tracking a small asteroid called “2024 YR4.” It has a very low chance of hitting the ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

NASA is tracking the path of an asteroid that is set to shoot past ... If this careening space rock were to hit Earth, the force of its impact would be equivalent to 19,000 tons of TNT ...

NASA is tracking the path of a huge asteroid that will come hurtling past Earth at a staggering speed of 35,000mph later today. The giant space rock, Asteroid 2025 BS4, is 23 feet wide and weighs ...

Stock image of an asteroid in space (main) and an American schoolbus (inset). Stock image of an asteroid in space (main) and an American schoolbus (inset). ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS 2025 BS4 is ...